Cornrows Poems - Poems about Cornrows

If our hair was on trial

...If our hair was on trial
And it was called to testify
And tell the truth
Of what the world put it through

It tells the stories
Of all the hairstyles
That it was

It starts with when it was ...

Monkey Business

...marauding foxes  
mutilating fruit
minutemen mischief-makers
marching upon us

pick our pockets
laugh at our loss
   
“No mangoes for sale”

maimed, mangled, mashed
sweetness sham...

Weathered

...Torn, tattered, tainted,
my Book of Shadows

Travels with me,
from cities to meadows

Drawings included;
demons and rainbows

Spells introduced,
between haystacks and cornrows

Too freque...

Fox Hunting

...Fox Hunting

She turns tail to snake through the dust,
parting orderly heads of corn,
breathing heat and eating dark
On her way to escape—she hopes—
from the fox chasing her (a...

Dreads

...i used to
walk the
cornrows
shooting
mourning
doves as
they flew
out as
fast as
clay pigeons

now my eyes
are following
the cornrows
of her hair
from fore
head to
nape
like
followi...

Dreads

...i used to
walk the
cornrows
shooting
mourning
doves as
they flew
out as
fast as
clay pigeons

now my eyes
are following
the cornrows
of her hair
from fore
head to
nape
like
followi...

Naps In Your Nice Hair

...My hair fills the circumference of itself
And takes up space with little help
It goes the only way it knows
In tightly bound cornrows 

In church the preacher talks about my hair
To entertain e...

Cry For Rain

...Look thou up again for the rain clouds gather
Thou hast seeded with vapor of tears 
Art thou soon weary gazing upon heaven?
And thy hope eaten up by needless cares?

Come thee away from whence I...

This Hair

...The hair sits on my head like it's a throne
And I'm a heir to the heritage
Generations of my people passed this 
crown on to me 
You may call it nappy but don't sleep on
my royalty
I'm king-siz...

Florida Oranges

...Groves,
parallel patterned rows
(hardly higher than bushes),
dot and stretch up hillsides,
looking from a distance
much like cornrows
on the tight tan scalps
of hip young New York
subway ride...

Room C13

...I raced through my chores, braided my hair in cornrows
Meticulously washed my body, daub the back of my ears
The insides of my elbow, and my wrist, with my then cheap perfume
There my pulse beat, ...

The Older I Get

...I once heard the whisper of falling snow,
saw a spark in the eye of a coal-black crow,
felt the power and awe of a swift river's flow,
the older I get, the less I know.

My hair was once braided...

Spring Reigns

...Remnants of Winters tendrils
reside upon the bare basalt cliffs.
Cornrows of ice cascade
washed by relentless rain.

Down pours the mana
of Spring, the Bride,
berating the laggard Winter;
exp...

Need To Know

...The Lip Gloss question of the day is "What do I know about you?"
Can't really say -- everyday, I see something new.
It could be hat, wig, cornrows, or weave,
Don't matter which, I gotta have me a ...

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